Microsoft, SFR launch the Messenger Edition 251 phone with Windows Live
Microsoft has partnered with SFR (France’s second largest mobile carrier) to introduce the Messenger Edition 251, a new QWERTY (well, AZERTY actually) messaging phone that comes pre-installed with Windows Live Messenger.
Targeted at young users, the Messenger Edition 251 looks a bit like a BlackBerry and it’s most probably manufactured by ZTE, since it almost perfectly [...]
Another LG Windows Phone 7 Series handset leaked?
We’ve just spotted a new leaked image that allegedly shows a second Windows Phone 7 Series device made by LG (the first one being the LG Panther).
The image has been initially posted at Neowin but it has been removed – which obviously suggests that it’s either fake, or it shouldn’t have been posted because it [...]
Windows Phone 7 Series to lack copy and paste functionality at launch
It looks like Windows Phone 7 Series will be, at least in one way, similar to the first versions of Apple’s iPhone OS: it won’t have copy and paste.
According to Engadget, Microsoft has just confirmed this during its MIX10 conference – where the Redmond giant has also unveiled Windows Phone Marketplace, free WP7 developer tools [...]
Samsung’s first Windows Phone 7 Series handset shows up
Until now, Microsoft showed only two Windows Phone 7 Series devices, one made by Asus and one made by LG (possibly called LG Panther). Well, today a Samsung WP7 handset has also been showcased, during MIX10 – where Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone Marketplace and other details on its new mobile platform.
The Samsung Windows Phone 7 [...]
Microsoft unveils Windows Phone Marketplace, Windows Phone 7 Series dev tools and more
During the first day of its MIX10 conference, Microsoft has announced more detail on Windows Phone 7 Series.
When launching WP7, the Redmond giant will rebrand the Window Mobile Marketplace and call it Windows Phone Marketplace.
The Windows Phone Marketplace will have “a panoramic design and active merchandising”, coming with support for operator billing, one-time card purchases [...]
Re-confirmed: Microsoft, Adobe working to bring Flash to Windows Phone 7 Series
When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 Series, the company said that the new OS would not support Flash 10.1 at launch.
However, Adobe recently mentioned that Flash support will eventually come to WP7, and now Mike Chambers (Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations at Adobe) has reconfirmed this. According to him, Adobe and Microsoft are “working [...]
Windows Mobile gains market share… in Latin America
Although many see Windows Mobile 6.5 as an almost dead platform, it looks like the OS is actually gaining market share in Latin America.
While talking about the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7 Series OS in the region, Doug Smith (Microsoft’s Latin American director of mobile communications) said that two companies grew in the smartphone [...]
Microsoft’s Pink phones show up again, might hit both Verizon and Vodafone
Although Microsoft hasn’t officially announced them, the Project Pink phones are almost certainly real and coming to Verizon in the near future.
Codenamed Pure and Turtle, the handsets have appeared in two new leaked images over at Engadget.
Manufactured by Sharp (one of Japan’s leading phone makers), the Microsoft Pink Pure and Pink Turtle seem to be [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 apps won’t run on Windows Phone 7 Series
Microsoft keeps on saying that Windows Phone 7 Series is really different from the past versions of its mobile OSes – and, well, it is. In fact, it’s so different that applications compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 (or older) will not run on Windows Phone 7 Series devices.
The Redmond giant is getting ready to “pull [...]
Microsoft Project Pink phones might hit Verizon in April (without Windows Phone 7)
Remember Microsoft’s Project Pink phone, rumored to be headed to Verizon? It looks like there are actually two handsets that Microsoft wants to launch via the largest North American carrier – one codenamed Turtle and another one codenamed Pure (and no, it’s not AT&T’s HTC Pure).
The Turtle is a vertical slider with a full QWERTY [...]